On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:13:42PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> On Aug 1, 2007, at 17:02, David Cantrell wrote:
> >What's hateful is the shell or OS (I can't be bothered to remember
> >which) which makes it necessary - namely the limitation on how long
> >your
> >command line can be.
> An unlimited command line is impossible, and hideously inefficient.
> Eventually you'll run out of VM building the command line, no matter
> how much VM you have. You have to get away from the whole concept of
> the command line to resolve that problem.
Sure, but limiting me to a mere few thousand characters is just stupid.
If I want to use a billion characters and kick the shit out of my swap
slice, the computer should allow me, the administrator, to shoot myself
in the foot. That it doesn't is a misfeature.
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